A Law Dictionary and Glossary

A fundamental truth; an

I. fr. In old English law. of taking two tuns of wine from twenty tuns or more.

I fr. In old English law. A

In old English law. Things veyors; provisions taken for the

I fr. A taking. Prisel en place; a plea in abatement in the

I. I. In old English law. A prisoned malefactor.

I I. In old English law. finement; a place of punishment

I. fr. In old English law. taken for crime are confined; person, as by duress; a prisoner.

A place of confinement of by way of punishment; a public a place for the detention of debtors sons charged with offenses, and confinement of persons sentenced for an ofifense. Pris

A person restrained of his prison, either on a criminal charge, a person on trial for crime.

I. There argument is required to prove

Affecting or belonging to a person or persons, not the public at large. Private act: an act which operates only on particular persons and private concerns. Private corporation: a c

t Private; privy. Privatum conimodum publico cedit: private good yields to public. Privatum concilium: privy council. Privatum incommodum publico bono pensatur: private inconvenien

A private person or individual. Privatorum conventio juri publico non derogat, l. Lat. An agreement of private individuals does [can] not derogate from public or common right [or c

I /r. Privately; privily; secretly; not visibly. Privemenf enceint: secretly pregnant; not known or observed to be so.

Persons connected by some relation other than that of contract between them; persons so connected in estate, right or liability that one will be affected as the other is affected.

An exemption or immunity from some general duty or burden; a right peculiar to some individual or body. Privilege from arrest: a privilege from arrest on civil process, enjoyed by

Having a peculiar right or immunity. Privileged communication: a communication made to counsel in professional confidence, which he is not permitted to divulge; a communication mad

Lat. In old English law. A privilege. Privilegium clericale: the clerical privilege; the benefit of clergy. Privilegium est beneficium personale, et extinguitur cum persona: a priv

Participation: connection; interest; mutuality of interest; mutual relationship to the same rights of property. Privity of contract: that upon which a promise may be^ implied. Priv

V. Privies; Privity.

Connected with; concerned with; private. Privy verdict: a verdict given privily to the judge out of court, but of no force unless afterwards affirmed by a verdict in open court. In

A thing of value offered generally for the doing of something; property captured at sea under the laws of war; such property regularly condemned by the sentence of a prize court. P

I. For; in consideration of; in behalf of; to the extent of; in lieu of; in payment of; during; a word formerly used in deeds, expressive of a condition in certain cases. Pro bono

Likeness to truth; the likelihood that a thing is thus or so.

Apparently founded in fact or reason; reasonable. 'Probable cause: reasonable cause for the prosecution of a person. Probable CTidence: presumptive evidence, so called froin its fo

I. To prove. Probare est fldem facere jndlci: to prove is to convince or satisfy the judge.

Official proof, particularly the proof of a will, made before the ordinary, surrogate or probate judge; the copy of a will which has been proved, made out under the seal of the ord

In Scots law. Proof, or, more properly, evidenca

prsesumuntur media, I. The extremes being proved, the intermediate proceedings are presumed.

Having the effect of proof. Probative fact: a fact which has the effect of proving a fact sought to be proved.

I In old English law. A prover or approver, v. Approver.

LI In old English law. A good man. Probus et legalis homo: a good and lawful man, — a phrase particularly applied to a juror or witness free from exception. ProbI homines: good men

I For proceeding; a writ by which a cause removed to a superior court by certiorari, or otherwise, is sent back to the inferior court to be proceeded in. In English law. A writ by

The body of rules by which rights are given effect by governing process, pleading and the course of trial, to judgment and execution.

To go; to go on; to be founded on.

A going on in form of law; an act done in form of law; a judicial act, directed against persons or property.

The steps or measures taken in the course of an action, including all that are taken; in a narrower sense, the proceedings as entered on record.

Money obtained from the sale of property; goods or other articles of value, proceeding from the sale of property.

I. fr. Proceeding; mode of proceeding. Proces-verbal: a relation duly attested of what has been said or done in presence of an of Scer.

A something issuing out of court, or from a judge; a judicial writ of any sort; in a general sense, the entire proceedings in an action or prosecution; in patent law, a means or me

In American law. A proceeding authorized by statute for ascertaining, marking and establishing the boundary lines of lands.

I. L In old English law. Process; proceeding; the course of judicial proceeding; the course of proceeding in an action. Processus legis est gravis vexatio; executio legis coronat o

proclieyn, procliaine, procain, I. fr. Next; nearest Prochein ami, or amy: next friend; the person by whom an infant may prosecute. Procheyn heire: next heir.

I. fr. Nearness; proximity.

I. In the civil law. To,cry out, or proclaim; to give warning; to assert a claim.

I. In the civil law. A crying out; a proclaiming or proclamation.

A crying out; a notice by public outcry; a public notice, in writing, of some act done by the government, or to be done by the people. In old English law. A writ issued with the wr

I. L In old English law. proctor was delegated to act in a court

/. To beget Procreatus: andi: begotten and to be begotten.

One who manages the business or commission of his principal; an ecclesiastical courts, corresponding with and solicitor, in equity.

I. Without doubt

I. In the civil law. To see to manage; to superintend.

In English law. Brokei-age to scriveners and solicitors, for obtaining

I In old English law. An servant; a proxy of a lord in parliament. In Scots law. Procurator fiscal: a public In the civil law. One who manages the under the instructions of his pri

I. fr. A proctor; an agent or

I. In old English law. A fact, as a mother in behalf of her children.

I. fr. In old English law. to the barons, or other military tenants, cil.

I. I. In old English production, by a plaintiff, of a number firm his count The original of the modern precedents, " and therefore he

Proferns, prof rus, 1 1. In old English an offer or endeavor to proceed in an proolaniation by a sheriff on a writ defendant wlio has failed to the bill. begotten. Pi'ocreati et pr

Profert in cnrla, or ad cnriam, I He produces, or he produces in court; in modern practice, an allegation in a pleading, where a party alleges a deed, that he shows it in court, it

profits. Gain; the gain made in a business or on an investment; the difference between what is received and what is expended: the produce of lands, v. Mesne profits. Profits a pren

I. I. In old English law. Profit Proflcunm terras: profit of land. Proftcua: profits.

I. To hold before; to put in one's way; to forbid; to prohibit Proliibetur ne qnis faciat in sno quod nocere possit alieno, I It is forbidden for any one to do or make on his own l

I. Issue; offspring; progeny; issue of a lawful mai Tiage.

The act of prohibiting; particularly, the interdiction of the sale of intoxicating liquor, — an act which seems to be within the power of the states, except, possibly, as it may op

An undertaking, either in words or in writing, to do or not to do some particular thing; properly, an undertaking by parol, or not under seal, a promise by deed being technically c

The person to whom a promise is made.

Proraissor, I. One who makes a promise; a promiser.

I. In old English law. A promise. Promissio rei ineertac nullins juris esse repntatur: a promise of an uncertain thing is held to be of no validity.

Involving a promise. Promissory note: a written promise to a person named or his order, for the payment of money at a specified time, absolutely and at all events.

I, In the civil law. To promise.

To make public; to make a law ment or passage.

In old English law. A common informer; one of the incorporators of a private corporation. originally to make known the proposal of might be able to consider it before it was voted

I. In old English law. Delivery dict.

The establishment of the truth of some by evidence adduced for the purpose; the result Proofs: evidence given in proof.

I. I. In old English law. Division of partition; an allotted share, or pourpart.

Peculiar; particular; one's own.

That which is proper or peculiar to one own; that to which one has an unrestricted the right by virtue of which a thing belongs own; ownership; dominion. Considered as property is

In Scots law. Tlie relationship members of a family or their descendants.

f. In old English law. Near; near excludit propinquam, proplnquus reiuotum, rem: the nearer [heir] excludes the near; the mote; the remote [excludes] the remoter.

In Scots law. To state or move.

In ecclesiastical law, the party an allegation.

I. In old English law. To offer, forth; to propound.

I. I. In old Scots law. A verdict report of the jury or assise.

I. Purpose; design; object v.

I. I In the law of d&scents, the person son from whom succession is to be traced.

In ecclesiastical law, to present or state.

l. By, in or with his own. Propria Propria persona: in his own person.

I I. Propriety; proper meaning or yerborum est salus proprietatum: the propriety ance of the proper import of words] is the guard] of properties. Proprietates verborum a law, that

In old English law. Property.

I. By one's own right Proprio nomine: in his own name. Proprio vigors: of its own force.

proprium, /. Peculiar; private; proper; exclusive; one's own. Proprius judex: a proper judge, one that properly had jurisdiction. Proprius servus: one's own slave.

Z. For; on account of. Propter affectum: on account of bias or favorable inclination. Propter commodam curia;: ifor the advantage of the court Propter curam et culturam: for care a

To follow up; to carry on an' action or other judicial proceeding; to proceed against a person judicially or criminally.

The carrying on of a judicial proceeding; the carrying on of a judicial proceeding in behalf of a complaining party; the carrying on of a criminal proceeding in behalf of the state

One who prosecutes for a crime, in the name of the state.

I. In old English law. A following up; pursuit

I In old English law. To follow after; to pursue or prosecute.

I In old English law. To throw down; to abate. Prostratns: thrown down.